Strangest Things You'll Find on Swap.com

One person's trash is not always another person's treasure. Here are 20 of the more interesting things we found listed.

Swap meets, no matter where they are, are full of character and characters. Some people go just for the exchange; not the transactional one, but the personal one. They stroll through the market, converse with strangers that share their passions, and can head home empty-handed but happy.

Swappers can also save money while sparing the environment from our worst consumer impulses. The goods have already been produced and purchased, they are just looking for a new home.

But because swap meets are built on the principle that one person's trash is another person's treasure, they are bound to contain detritus.Like daily life in Egypt's Manshiyat Naser, or "Garbage City," but on a smaller scale, some people comb through others' discards—dust them off, and set them out for sale. Naturally, there are bound to be some things that would have best been left for time to take care of.

Swap meets themselves have now started to grow in a less organic but no less nurturing environment with sites like Swap.com. It might seem different to those devotees that line up at the Rose Bowl the second Sunday of every month, but it has over 500,000 members. For anyone worried that an online swap meet would become sanitized and bloodless, never fear; its swappers still chat and change items every day, and even post real-world swap meets and meet in person. And, in the case of some items, you get the feeling that there's even still some of the original blood left on them.

As at any swap meet, there are some great finds on Swap.com, but there are also some really oddball ones. Those are the ones that have really caught our attention. So grab your credit card, get that Purell ready, and let's sort through some of the stranger finds on Swap.com.

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